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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Ray Bradbury

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
RAY BRADBURY

Learning Myself
Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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Failure Live Myself Rule Run Work Yourself
I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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Believe Destroy Fall Government Happiness Hate Hope Myself Politics
If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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Learning Motivational Positive Principle Wisdom
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Animal Creativity Greatness Ideas Secret Yourself
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Beginning Best Experience Ideas Inspirational Life Possible Romance Science
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Poet Possible Story Writing
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Address Learning Rejection Wrong Yourself
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Book Burn Destroy Inspirational Life People Reading Stop Struggle Yourself
If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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Children Friendship Hell Help Kind Love Marriage People
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Effort Growth Independence Inspirational Learning Wings
We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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Audience Celebration Creation God Job Spiritual
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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Believe Dance Destroy Passionate Quick Story Yourself
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Deep Sanity Wisdom
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
RAY BRADBURY

Learning Let Go Life Touch

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